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I live in Winnipeg, Manitoba where it is quite cold for a big majority of the year. I have dabbled with supplements because I get a couple of major colds every year.

I've heard things like you only need 15 minutes of sunshine per day to get your recommended dose of Vitamin D, but I've also heard it can be quite bad for you if you have too much in your system (and it's hard for your body to flush excess amounts).

If there a safe level of Vitamin D supplements where you won't run this risk? I don't drink milk either because I'm lactose intolerant.

That's what I thought too when they touted this meteoric rise to 100M in the early days of Threads.

If it's tied to Instagram, and these users aren't using Instagram while they're on Threads, isn't it basically the same difference?

mpv is a key part of my home theatre automation I wrote in PHP.

It runs on a Pi 4. PHP assembles playlists with a Dolby ad, a vintage dancing hot dog ad, trailers, and the feature. It runs mpv through proc_open.

It monitors the progress and controls mpv through a socket to know when to dim or raise the lights, open or close the curtain, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7YEVGWJjvI

Not sure why I got downvoted— for context to non-Canadians, a core policy of the Conservatives is to defund the CBC.

I mean, they'll probably shut down if Pierre Poilievre assumes power, though.

I really enjoyed Flexbox Froggy and felt like it helped me a lot better than Grid Garden. Maybe my brain just isn't a grid-oriented brain— CSS Grid never seems to stick.

I'm getting a 502 error with a robot graphic.

EDIT: It's up for my partner beside me, and it's up for my mom in Calgary, but still down for me.

Thank you for this— I was equally frustrated I couldn't look up Canada too!

Can't send any messages on Messenger on my phone, but facebook.com appears to be working fine.

That's fair. I learnt my lesson and have a shock-absorbing case now.

Yeah, I'm not holding out much hope, but I'm an AIO guy and I have zero interest in putting a tall Mac Mini on my desk. I ended up adding a 32" TV as a second monitor and it's good enough.

No, sorry, I meant it was so fragile, it no longer exists— I bumped it off my coffee table and the screen shattered (fell 18" to a hardwood floor).

I balked at spending over $700 to replace the screen. It definitely was leaps and bounds more performant than my 2012. I also hated the lack of MagSafe.

I usually baby my computers, but I did accidentally step on my 2012 MacBook Air when I was in college (I had placed it on stairs while doing a photo shoot with some classmates). It was fine.

My 2012 can't receive macOS and Adobe upgrades, but my partner is happily using it for basic browsing and photo editing.

I had a 13" M1 MacBook Air. It was an OK machine to move to from my 2012 MacBook Air, but the thing was super fragile.

Let's just say it's been retired while my 2012 is still going strong (my not-so-technically-inclined partner uses it for basic browsing).

I now have a 15" M2 MacBook Air and I have to say: this machine is the laptop of my dreams. It could be one of the best computers I've ever owned.

Now I'm just holding out for a 27" or larger iMac. I have a 24" M1 iMac and while I have gotten used to the screen being smaller, I still really could use the extra real-estate.

I am a web developer and media producer. These machines handle Premiere Pro and Blender just fine for my purposes. I have zero interest in getting the Studio.

I hesitate to post this here because I probably can't handle a rush of traffic if it gets attention, but I've been working on this at prezince.com.

Just launched an MVP on February 1st and it is very much alpha software.

It's a social network generator, essentially Wix or Squarespace for social networking.

You go through a simple wizard to choose what type of feed your network is based around (like Facebook/Twitter/Insta, YouTube-like streaming, TikTok-like vertical videos, or classic chat), how connections work (follow/follow back, request friend/confirm friend, or automatic for teams), what it looks like (fonts and colours), what features it has (right now, like button, comments on posts, and trending topics), and who can access it (public or invite only).

I very much learnt PHP and MySQL back in 2007 because of how cool I thought Facebook was, and I miss the early way the site operated.

I also just see how it can be a solution to a lot of different problems. My family is using one as a replacement for group chat on Signal— we can keep discussion centred around posts in the feed which only we have access to.

I'm a small user— only about 250,000 objects in storage and a lot of those cold storage behind Cloudflare, but I've been using SeaweedFS for years.

I think since v0.7— I was always intrigued by Facebook's Haystack.

SeaweedFS been super reliable, efficient, and trouble free.

I only have a half dozen web servers, but I used CentOS for everything so I'm sad it's the end of the line.

That being said, I've recently completed moving entirely over to Debian and there's just something about it I love so much more...

My partner and I decided to buy a Wii together for our first Christmas in 2009. We had a lot of fun playing online with our friends and strangers until the services went offline.

It looks like those servers went offline in 2014, but it felt like we didn't get this service for very long.

We pretty much decided from that experience we'd never buy a console again.

We've had these in Winnipeg for as long as I can remember, but this is Canada where 5-pin is king.

I first saw them in the late 90's at Uptown Alley which was located on two levels of an old movie palace.

They definitely tangled a lot when they first went in, but it seems like the technology here got better overtime.

Really interesting to see Dougald Lamont trending here on Hacker News: he was most recently the leader of Manitoba's Liberal party.

He lost his seat a few weeks ago in a provncial election where the party was reduced from three seats to one.

I've been obsessed with this number for most of my life. It's like I see it on every clock I look at, or on every license plate in front of me.

There are random things about it like channel 37 has significance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_37

Apparently Robert Fife told the PMO they were going to run this. The government asked them to hold off for a week, and then The Globe and Mail said "no, we're running it in 24 hours."

This actually seems like a great way to say it: maintenance mode. I'm really shocked at how badly facebook.com runs in Firefox latest on an M1 MacBook Air. It's completely broken and has been since they've launched this React version.

Thanks for bringing this oversight to my attention and for your patience while it is fixed. I threw a couple of attributes on the site before I left for work an hour ago and will make sure the attribute meets the requirements once I get home this evening.

I love PHP and MySQL. I'm self taught and I've been writing it since 2007. It has helped me solve real problems at every job I've had since which has helped me advance my career in tremendous ways.

I know PHP is not perfect and I've definitely contributed some hot messes of code in the past as I figured things out. Sorry...

PHP has let me code anything I've wanted so far, so it's a really powerful tool for me.

I'm the guy who built an automated home cinema using PHP and MySQL: I hit a button on a website and it tells a Raspberry Pi to start the desired show.

It selects a Dolby ad, some sort of vintage ad like dancing hot dogs, a couple of trailers, and the feature. It brings the lights up for the credits.

All PHP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7YEVGWJjvI

Sorry, but as I approach 40, 20-23 years ago does seem like a long time. It went by in the blink of an eye, though.

This was a pretty long time ago, like early-Millennium. It was my first job and I was 15.

I saw people come in, use the bathroom, and leave, so I asked the executive what I was supposed to do.

We were a corporate store and usually a test site for new products and procedures.

Shameless plug: I developed a site to help with this in my city Winnipeg called Winnipee.

It went viral last summer and had a flurry of activity with community contributions (locations, updates). Winter came, traffic levelled off, and it didn't spike again this summer (though it has remained stable).

I tried to track whether it was OK to use the washroom without a purchase, wheelchair accessibility, size. When I worked at McDonald's, an executive told me they wanted their customers to know there was always a bathroom they could use anywhere in the world even if they weren't making a purchase this visit.

AFAIK, Starbucks had a similar policy for a long time.

It was interesting to see how some locations featured immediately locked down their washrooms.

I had a Tim Hortons franchise owner email me and freak out, so we marked her location as "purchase required."

It's been pretty brutal here with the meth crisis, though, so I also get it.

At the end of the day, I would love for our governments to provide taxpayer funded facilities around the city and even on several of our major highways. We used to have a lot here but they closed almost all of them.

You can check it out: https://www.winnipee.com

This was exactly my experience yesterday— on a firstnamelastname.tld email address for the first time, sort of phishing looking but with legitimate-looking URLs.

Even the email headers looked legit but there was something so weird feeling about it I figured it was a sophisticated phishing attempt.

I also found it odd there was no notification or anything inside Facebook.

I'm one of the customers who hasn't received their paycheque yet. People on Twitter are reporting they can't use their debit cards for Interac nor ATM withdrawals, nor can they transfer funds between accounts.

My chequing account does not show the past two transactions (bill payment, dinner) but has the correct balance pre-direct deposit.

Wondering what my fellow techies here think... Database gone to hell? Restoring from back-ups?

Personally, I like the small paragraphs of a couple sentences— that's how I was taught to format an article in journalism school.

It's far easier to read and generally keeps the writing less flowery.